WHS senior prank helps community
The Waupaca High School Class of 2012 graduated Monday, May 28, leaving a legacy of outstanding sports records, memorable musical numbers and an outstanding academic record.
This class also left its mark for its senior prank.
Traditionally in high schools all over the U.S., the graduating senior class finds it necessary to leave their mark by organizing some sort of prank. While these pranks are usually harmless, they can leave a negative impression about the class for years to come.
This is not the case of the class of 2012, which decided instead to raise money for the Waupaca Community Garden and the Waupaca Food Pantry. They raised $300 for each organization plus several boxes of food by charging a voluntary toll for the students and faculty to park in the school parking lots one morning. The faculty and students were more than happy to donate. The seniors also purchased baked goods to sell at the door of the high school.
I asked one of the students why they chose this particular idea and they said, "We wanted to give back to a community that supported us through our lives."
The staff of the Waupaca School District is proud of these kids. Their senior prank will be a positive legacy that will follow them for many years to come.
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5 Comments for "WHS senior prank helps community "
Couldn't they do both?
40 hours of community service is a graduation requirement in many high schools.
lastpercentile Jun 07, 2012 5:12 PM
Could you ever, just once in your life, say "Good job, kids! Way to be innovative and fun! Way to do some good and have some fun doing it!"
katylady Jun 13, 2012 6:59 PM
I'll leave that to you.
They raised $600, which works out to about $2.60 per senior. Less than a gallon of gas, and the exact cost of one lunch in the cafeteria.
Here's my perspective: as seniors, we pulled our hilarious (legal, non-destructive) prank, then we raised $17,000 for cancer research - all in the same day. That worked out to $155 per senior.
I'm guessing that a class prank was considered too dangerous, after seeing several of their classmates railroaded off the graduation stage by the "dope" prank the school administrators pulled.
lastpercentile Jun 14, 2012 5:46 PM
If, in your wisdom, you gave this money to "The American Cancer Society" or "For The Cure", you threw away $17,000. :( Cancer "research" is a total scam.
livinghealthy Jun 17, 2012 9:43 AM
There's too much money to be made in in a cancer cure, so logically, it couldn't be a [u]total[/u] scam. Your statement is too broad to be accurate, in other words. It betrays your lack of knowledge of cancer research funding.
And there was time when charitable organizations didn't hire $3MIL directors, $8MIL consultants, and $60MIL junk mail marketers.
But I agree with you that some of them (today) are scams, when compared to the first or second decade of the "war on cancer".
Our contributions were not thrown away.
lastpercentile Jun 17, 2012 5:20 PM